Braid.



No. 664,064. Patehted Dee. l8, I900. F. THUN- &. H. JANSSEN.

BRAID.

(Application filed Jan. 11, 1900.)

(No Model.)

Witnesses $9 I W 4 p Attorney.

THE NDRRKS PETERS co. momuma, WASHINGTON, :1 c4 A? Inventor NrrED STATESPATENT OFFICE.

FERDINAND THUNAND HENRY J ANSSEN, OF WYOMISSING, PENNSYLVANIA.

BRAID.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 6 dated- December 1900-Original application filed A u t 24, 1897, Serial No. 649,402. Dividedand this application filed January 11, 1900. Serial No. 1,030- (Nospecimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FERDINAND THUN and HENRY J ANSSEN, citizens of theUnited States of America, and residents of Wyomissing, in

the county of Berks and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain newand useful Improvements in Braids, of which the following is aspecification.

Our invention relates to braids; and it consists in an improvedconstruction having additional threads woven into one face thereof andadapted to produce ornamental patterns on the surface, as well as toincrease the body of the fabric.

The invention is fully described in connection with the accompanyingdrawings and is particularly pointed out in the claims.

Figure 1 is a face View of a braid embodying our invention, theadditional or filling threads being so interwoven with the usualdiagonally-braided threads as to form a succession of letters on theexposed face of the braid. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view on the line00 0a of Fig. 1. Figs. 3 and 4, 5 and 6, and

2 5 7 and 8 are similar views to Figs. 1 and 2, showingslightly-modified patterns formed by the additional threads. 7

The object of our invention, as stated, is to provide a braid in whichare interwoven ad- 0 ditional threads, preferably of a different colorfrom the main threads, so as to serve as a filling, whereby the body ofthe fabric is increased and at the same time to produce an ornamentaleffect on one face thereof.

3 5 In the drawings the main threads or groups of threads (marked a andb, respectively) are diagonally braided together in the ordinary way.The additional or filling threads 0 in Figs. 1 and 2, for instance, formcore or warp threads, around which the main threads at and b arebraided, except where the threads 0 are carried intermittently to theoutside of the main threads, so as to show at intervals on the outerface of the braid, as indicated 5 by the small solid black blocks, whichare symmetrically arranged to form the desired pattern. 7

In our pending application, filed August 24, 1897, Serial No. 649,402,we have fully I shown and described a braiding-machine particularlydesigned to produce our improved braid, in which is provided a specialseries of bobbins or thread-carriers for these additional threads, whichcarriers are arranged to travel across the serpentine path of the mainseries of carriers, the movements being so timed with the movements ofthe main carriers as to cooperate therewith, and thereby simultaneouslyeffect the braiding of the main threads a and b and the interweavingtherewith of the filling or pattern threads 0, as described.

In Figs. 5 and 6 the filling-threads are alternately inside and outsideof the main threads, which ordinarily form the exposed face of thebraid, or, in other words, are alternately on the surface and in thecenter of the fabric, the eifect produced being that of a broken line.

In Figs. 3 and 4 a pair 0 of filling-threads are employed, one of whichis arranged to lie on. thesnrface, while theother is at the center, andvice versa, so that a continuous but uneven line is formed, which linemay be made practically unbroken if groups of threads 0 be employed, asindicated. A great variety of ornamental designs may of course beproduced.

What we claim is- 1. As a new article of manufacture, abraid havinginterwoven therewith additional or pattern threads which run 'parallelwith the sides of the braid and lie alternately on the surface of andbetween the overlying diagonal threads as filling-threads.

' 2. As a new article of manufacture, a braid having additional orpattern threads which run parallel with the sides of the braid and arewoven into one face thereof only and lie alternately on the surface ofand between the overlying diagonal threads as filling-threads.

Signed by us at Reading, Pennsylvania, this 9th day of January, 1900.

FERDINAND THUN. HENRY JANSSEN.

Witnesses:

ADAM L. OTTERBEIN, W. G. STEWART.

